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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73355Post DNgroundworks

TBH alot of my work is stuff like this, basic, budget stuff that doesnt look well in a portfolio, pays the bills though!

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This one is 'the' job that caused me to seek out advice on here back in 2008/2009? Needles to say, ive never looked back.

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Thats all folks...for now at least :)

DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73356Post DNgroundworks

dig dug dan wrote:dan, lovely work there. Love that kubota. I bet that was a joy to use!
have you had the gas repaired? what did it cost. how quick did they come out?
they have to go in the house to "flush" it through don't they??
on that driveway, where you went up the side up against the concrete posts, did you have to chip away at the concrete much?
I never fill my post holes to top. makes it easier later on in life!
Yea they repaired both the day they were broke (cough both on the same day cough cough)

The big one - as for reasons known only to the muppet that decided upon it, was inside the foundation of a drystone wall, so when i pushed it over with machine...it broke, the guy that came out said hell just put it down to a leaking coupling - so got that free. It also helped that i knew his boss!

The small one even though it was too shallow, should of been free also, im putting a fair bit of pressure on them, so im hoping they will fold. They want £700.00 for the small pipe.

Ye we chipped away a as much as we dared, tbh i could of pushed them posts over before we started they were knackered at the bottom, the kerb edge was put there to hide the join of concrete panels and next doors naff driveway which was higher.

The gas lads were out within 20 minutes

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Post: # 73366Post lutonlagerlout

very nice work dan ,nice tidy jobs
on the drive how did you end up with the cut at the front?
did you start at the house?
if you get them pictures on the website you will get more work out of it
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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73370Post DNgroundworks

Ye we started at the house Tony, at the Aco channel, then paved back up hill towards the pavement.

My brother has some pictures somewhere of the drainage under that drive, there are pipes everywhere, all of next doors come into their IC's, we encased the lot in concrete as they where so shallow.

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Post: # 73372Post lutonlagerlout

that is the correct way of doing it as per the gaffer's book,but i always em to struggle to start at the house if that makes sense
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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73375Post DNgroundworks

Ideally id want the cuts against the house, but i suppose it doesnt really matter, next job im gonna do 45 degree i think.

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Post: # 73379Post dig dug dan

dan, when i did a simlar drive, i turned the last blocks round 90 degrees and cut them in. was that incorrect??
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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73381Post DNgroundworks

i dont think so, i dunno! thats probs only my tenth ever block paving job :p

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Post: # 73396Post London Stone Paving

DNgroundworks wrote:TBH alot of my work is stuff like this, basic, budget stuff that doesnt look well in a portfolio, pays the bills though!
dont knock it. i always found the simpler jobs to be much more profitable than the hi spec jobs. your in and out with a lot less chance of things going wrong

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Post: # 73404Post haggistini

Tidy work dan any pics of the setts finnished?
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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73410Post DNgroundworks

No mate, we never finished the job, the client was a pain, i was doin the job through another groundworks firm because his men werent good enough, for a PITA architect, the job went pear shaped he found it funny to threaten non payment, and i walked the same day i took that pic :(

TBH whoever finished it made a bodge, the bit that is excavated was all filled in with setts, id got set up to lay them with a camber before i left, some one made a right balls of it and didnt give it any fall in its length and it now holds around 3" of water either side lol

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Post: # 73413Post lutonlagerlout

those setts dont look the finest
look like 30 mm difference in width in some of them!!
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Post: # 73415Post DNgroundworks

LOL i know LLL!...was waiting for you to mention them ;) it took him weeks to decide, and he decided on them bloody things, he had couriers bringing samples from all over the place - the mind boggles! They ranged from around 2.5 inches to 7 inches!

He wanted the two courses stepped, and when i complained about the quality of the material he had supplied he told me to mix the varying sizes up? Probably why i struggled.

the whole job turned out a shambles in the end, im glad i was only there for a few days!

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Post: # 73433Post Thepinkpavingco

Ah the stresses of this trade that we have to endure.
One thing that really gets up my nose with this game is running
Here there and everywhere for samples for some tight numptee to find gold Paving for £5 a metre.
Think paving, think pink!

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